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untitled, 1955

robert rauschenberg

combine painting, 15.5″ x 20.75″

“Robert Rauschenberg has been one step ahead of and influential to all the major post war art movements since Abstract Expressionism. Often categorized as a pop artist, he remains independent of any affiliation. His lifelong commitment to collaboration with performers, printmakers, engineers, writers, artists, and artisans from around the world is the manifestation of his expansive artistic philosophy. His artistic vision is a manifestation of the changing world and it’s ideology as he moves through life. His “Combines” of the early ‘50’s seem to have developed in response to the inundation of disparate imagery we are subject to in the 21st Century.”

rest in peace.

the other side of sorrow

flora s. bowley

acrylic on canvas over panel, 48″ x 48″, 2005

“Fragments of bird wings, seed pods, hives, insects and petals rest along side ragged swatches of unpredictable color with sometimes subtle, sometimes not, counterpoints of pencil drawing, etching, dripping and stamping.”

four shino bowls

keith phillips - mudstuffing handmade porcelain pottery

“My name is Keith Phillips. I make a lot of things. I’m a father of two, happy husband and I work in the garage/studio behind our house. Some days I’m throwing pots, other days I’m designing fabrics and quilts . . . . All pottery is hand thrown, using porcelain, fired to Cone 6 and also in a soda kiln fired to Cone 10. I find that sprayed temmoku glazes have a wonderful translucent quality.”

our hell is the good life

cara ober

mixed media on canvas, 60″ x 50″, 2006

” I find beauty in all the wrong places. In my paintings, a cigarette butt with fuchsia lipstick kiss prints, or a soiled gingham tablecloth, can function simultaneously as holy icon and ironic joke.”

index/04 calme et simplicité [bonheur]

copyright depuis 1965

“Like pieces of a delicate soul, broken but lovingly restored. The images in this stream are fragile, yet resilient. They are full of emotion, yet suppressed in narrative. Absorb their beauty in silence. copyright depuis 1965 is a veritable flickr jewel and her images leave indelible marks deep within my hollow.” (original ann)

daydream directly

deborah t. colter

acrylic and mixed media on canvas,  48″ x 36″

“Often these marks will reflect architectural landscapes, roads, maps, repeated patterns, or colors as if seen from above or as recalled from within, a sort of visual record book of the mind.”

eddie’s bbq : america series

michael eastman

“Over the past thirty years, Michael Eastman has produced a body of fine art photography on subjects ranging from European and Cuban Architecture to Horses. This current American body of work is a project primarly about the preservation of a “Vanishing America.” “I love these old buildings and I love how they make me feel and what I remember. I feel a sense of urgency about this project because every time I go to another city, and I explain what I’m looking for, someone says, ‘Oh I wish you had been here a week ago or last year’…I need to photograph these places while they are still here,” Eastman stated in View Camera May/June 2005″